Brandon Payton
Software Engineer at Automattic
Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Payton is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building web-first applications and services, currently contributing at Automattic from Indiana. He blends front-end craftsmanship with back-end sensibility—evident in contributions to high-profile open-source projects like WordPress Gutenberg (improving mobile modal UX with a ScrollLock component) and the Calypso codebase for WordPress.com. His background spans enterprise and product engineering at IBM and SitePen, where he worked on data-driven UI components and migrated dgrid to dstore, showing attention to correctness through added tests. Comfortable across the full stack, Brandon has repeatedly focused on usability, cross-device compatibility, and operational concerns such as hosting and server configuration. A Purdue graduate, he brings a pragmatic, user-centered approach to engineering and a track record of improving developer-facing and end-user experiences in widely used web platforms.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Purdue University Fort Wayne
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Github Skills (26)
javascript10
component-development10
wordpress10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
gutenberg10
react10
s69
css9
nodejs9
rest-api8
php8
redux8
api-rest8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
SitePen/dgrid
Mar 2013 - Jul 2014
A lightweight, mobile-ready, data-driven, modular grid widget designed for use with dstore
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily focused on improving the `dgrid` project, a data-driven grid widget. Their commits addressed a specific issue related to subRows and the `set` method within the `_StoreMixin`. The user added DOH tests to verify the functionality of column set methods with subRows. Furthermore, the user migrated dgrid to dstore and fixed various issues related to the migration.
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Automattic/wp-calypso
Jul 2017 - Jul 2022
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 20 commits, 31 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily contributed to the front-end and back-end features of the WordPress.com Calypso project. They implemented user interface components for the privacy settings, including the ability to request a Data Processing Addendum (DPA). Additionally, they modified server-side code, incorporating features such as cookie-based support sessions and web server configuration. They also worked on disabling a PHP version and modifying hosting settings.
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